Anna Haverland

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Anna Haverland as the Maid of Orléans
Anna Haverland as Iphigenie, Meiningen Court Theater , ca.1890
As a witch in "Die Hexe" by Arthur Fitger , 1890

Anna Haverland (born January 8, 1854 in Berlin , † May 31, 1908 in Blasewitz near Dresden ) was a German actress who also worked as a writer.

Life

Haverland trained as an actress in Berlin with Karl Gustav Berndal and Minona Frieb-Blumauer . She received her first engagement in 1871 at the Stadttheater Leipzig , where she was committed to the subject of adolescent lovers. Her engagement in Leipzig ended in 1874; an engagement at the Dresden court theater followed . Here she was cast in the heroine field, played leading roles in modern plays and classical works, and in it gained "general recognition through the nobility of her conception and the noble plastic of her movements". In 1877 she was engaged by Karl Hoff for the role of "Germania" at the festival before Kaiser Wilhelm I in the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf .

This was followed by engagements at the Royal Theater in Berlin (1878–1879), where she made her debut as the Maiden of Orléans , and in Frankfurt am Main (1880–1883). Haverland also made numerous guest tours with the Meininger Hoftheater ensemble , including to London and St. Petersburg . Another engagement led Haverland in 1883 to the Deutsche Theater Berlin , where she played alongside Josef Kainz , among others . Contemporaries praised her portrayals of Antigone, Iphigenia, Sappho and Medea. In 1892 Haverland made a guest appearance in New York City , where she played the lead role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at Amberg's Theater . It was the first German performance of the piece in America; Ibsen had chosen Haverland himself to perform when the play was first performed at the Lessing Theater in Berlin in February 1891 . Haverland was in contact with other artists of their time, including Theodor Fontane . In the fragmentary Berlin novel Allerlei Glück , Fontane placed the figure of the theater-loving Bertha, who raves about the role of Iphigenia and chats with her friend Hanke about various plays, to Haverland. Johannes Schilling used Haverland's arm as a model for the arm of the Germania of the Niederwalddenkmals .

Due to a serious illness Haverland ended her stage career in 1897, first lived in Berlin and finally moved to Dresden. She died in Blasewitz in 1908. Obituaries praised her as "one of those generous artists [...] that our days apparently can no longer bring about. Her name deserves a place of honor next to Wolter , Ziegler , Kathi Frank and Eleonore Wahlmann . "

Works

  • 1891: loose sheets (sketches)
  • The madam is not at home (comedy, printed as a manuscript)
  • Adam Asper (comedy, printed as a manuscript)

literature

  • Haverland, Anna . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 109–110.
  • Haverland, Anna . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 120.
  • Haverland, Anna . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 9. Leipzig 1907, p. 9.
  • Haverland, Anna . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 321 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Haverland, Anna . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 9. Leipzig 1907, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Adolph Kohut: The Imperial Days in Düsseldorf , from Die Gartenlaube, Heft 39, 41, p. 699
  3. ↑ See the theater bill of the Berlin premiere
  4. ↑ Anna Haverland (= obituary). In: The New York Dramatik Mirror , June 13, 1908, p. 18. ( pdf ).
  5. ^ Walter Keitel: Theodor Fontane: novels, stories, poems. Volume 5 . C. Hanser 1966, p. 1012, FN 638.
  6. ^ Julius Hart: Anna Haverland . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books . Volume 8, Part 1, 1894.
  7. ^ Deutscher Bühnen-Verein (Ed.): New Theater Almanach . Stage Fonts Distribution Company, 1909, p. 168.
personal data
SURNAME Haverland, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1908
Place of death Blasewitz near Dresden